exhibitions

Portraits of Home II

Every day in communities across Greater Minnesota, veterans struggle to maintain their stability, safety, and dignity under extraordinarily difficult living conditions. The deeply moving images presented in Portraits of Home II reveal the challenging circumstances faced by these men and women and their families who are struggling to persevere. Presented by the Greater Minnesota Housing Fund.

Tonya Borgeson: Cloud Nine

Borgeson translates personal experience, aspects of the human condition, meditation, and global awareness into her Cloud Nine ceramic series. She intends for these pieces to elicit a quiet, restful response in her viewers. Borgeson lives and works in Duluth, MN.

Jeffrey Hirst: painting

Hirst intiates his work with ideas envoking fragmentation, spirituality, and the act of building/construction. He doesn't set out to pain images, but rather build/disassemble/rebuild until a final image is realized. His paintings are encaustic (wax & oil paint) on canvas. He lives and works in Minneapolis, MN.

Carl Johnson: mixed media

Johnson produces pieces - "fabrications" - from a great variety of common objects such as drawer pulls, rusty wire and metal, beads, pieces of old leather jackets and felt weather stripping. Johnson finds the synergies and relationships created by combinations of these objects both exciting and intriguing. He lives and works in Crystal, MN.

Soda Fired Ceramics

Group exhibition of work fired in the newly constrcuted soda fire kiln at Hibbing Community College. This exhibition will include work from well-known regional artists and students. It will be curated in collaboration with Daryn Lowman, Art Instructor & Department Head at Hibbing Community College.

Karin Kraemer: pottery

Kraemer's work is heavily influenced by her love to camp, be in the woods, garden and cook. She unites all of these elements in her work, celebrating everything from individual flowers in her garden to landscape, good friends and making food. She lives and works in Duluth, MN.

George Robinson: printmaking

Robinson has dedicated his life to printmaking. He has decided to set down his self-examinations in marking that may be examined by others. He lives and works in Shoreview, MN. He has been involved at MacRostie Art Center for 10+ years.

Kristin Grevich & Donna LaBeau: painting

Grevich is a self-taught artist who decided to pursue her passion of painting after working in the real estate business for ten years. Grevich's work focuses on her motivators in life; the human figure, the emotion of a portrait, animals, and nature. She lives and works in Hamel, MN.

After working in the corporate world for many years, LaBeau decided to trade the comfort of her career for her aspirations to be an artist. Her work focuses on capturing the beauty of nature rather than replicate it. She lives and works in Grand Rapids, MN.

Pete Schulte: graphite drawings

Schulte's works on paper are highly influenced by music, what he calls his "fuel". He focuses on light and draws from his own experiences to create small-scale graphite drawings. He has been active in the regional arts scene for the past twelve years, helping to found both the Figge Art Museum Art Advisory Council and the Kanga Arts Cooperative, both of Davenport, IA. He lives and works in Iowa City, IA.

Miniatures

This will be the fourth annual exhibition titled, "Small Art, Big Ideas: An Exhibition of Miniatures." The show is open to any and all MacRostie-affiliated artists who wish to participate. Each submission will be no larger than 12 inches in any dimension and the maxiumum retail price of each piece is $100.

Martha Iserman: watercolor & ink drawings

Iserman's work is focused on the natural world. She is fascinated with the biological sciences and explores her lifelong fear of sharks and water in her work. Her subject will be jellyfish. She lives and works in Minneapolis, MN.

Garden Art Group Show

This group exhibition will feature functional and non-functional garden and garden-inspired art. Media represented will include wood, metal, pottery, and much more.

Jill Jevne: mixed media

This exhibit, "Prophets and Revolutionaries", examines the lives of historic and modern day visionaries that shape and define our culture, technology, and politics. This piece grew from an interest in the role of prayer cards, sports cards, and tarot decks in the veneration of heroes and ideals such as bravery, righteousness, freedom and democracy. Jevne lives and works in Cohasset, MN.

Bradley Benn: ceramic fish

Benn's pottery has two foci: decorative fish and functional pots including wine vessels. He uses various glazes and firing techniques that interest him but don't necessarily mimic nature. He lives and works in Edina, MN.

18th Annual Juried Art Exhibition

Juror: Daryn Lowman

Open to artists in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and North and South Dakota, this show celebrates and rewards excellence and variety. The reception for this exhibition is one of the highlights of MacRostie's calendar - a fun, affirming evening.

Juried Art Application (pdf)

This activity is made possible in part by a grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council (www.ARACouncil.org) through an appropriation from the Minnesota State Legislature.

The artists include:

Joy Anderson - Bigfork, MN

Donna Rae Anderson - Deer River, MN

Rebecca Arnold-Sauer - Hibbing, MN

Elizabeth Blair - St. Paul, MN

Jeanne Bourquin - Ely, MN

Debbie Covart - Ramsey, MN

J. Charles Cox - Vermillion, SD

Bonnie DuFresne - Gilbert, MN

Ken Hanson - Cloquet, MN

Terry Honstead - Bemidji, MN

Joni Jensen - Coon Rapids, MN

Paula Jensen - Guthrie, MN

Jane Latimer - Grand Rapids, MN

Loraine Lufbery - International Falls, MN

Gene Madsen - Bigfork, MN

Roald Molberg - Duluth, MN

Lynn Nachbar - Bigfork, MN

Peter Pestalozzi - Ely, MN

Cathryn Peters - Angora, MN

Mary Therese Peterson - Bemidji, MN

Sandi Pillsbury Gredzen - Two Harbors, MN

William Prickett - Grand Rapids, MN

Wesley Rabey - Crookston, MN

Mark Sauer - Hibbing, MN

Jackie Solem - Bovey, MN

Gayle Streier - Eveleth, MN

Laura Thelen - Virginia, MN

Milo Von Strom - Virginia, MN

Elizabeth White - Grand Rapids, MN

Faith Wicklund - St. Peter, MN

Daryn Lowman: ceramics

Lowman is a ceramicist and an Art Instructor at Hibbing Community College in Hibbing, MN. His intention for this show is to "bring together works that display the transitions of flux as a material and as a connection to daily life. The word flux satisfies my nature and definition of how daily life contains a continous flow of change and movement." Works in the exhibition will be both functional and non-fucntional soda-fired ceramics.

James Klueg: ceramics

Klueg works to make smart art pottery that could only be made in the present, and that has at least something to say on various levels to diverse visual audiences. Klueg incorporates text and imagery into his ceramic vessels. He is currently the a Professor/Ceramics Area Head at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

Mail Art

Local and regional artists will participate in this third annual exhibition. All pieces in the show will be the same size and price. Proceeds from the sale of the artwork will directly benefit MacRostie Art Center. This exhibition is open to all MAC -affiliated artists who wish to participate.

Todd Voss: painting

Voss' painting process begins with outdoor observations and the study of nature, often taking "notes" with his camera. In the studio, he uses memory, photos, and instinct to guide his quick and direct method of painting. He creates enduring images that express the preciousness of nature, but also connect us with something greater than ourselves. He lives and works in Hovland, MN.

Coming Out

This exhibition will be organized in collaboration with OutFront Minnesota, the State's GLBT Online Community Center. OutFront Minnesota's mission is to make our state a place where GLBT Minnesotans have the freedom, power, and confidence to make the best choices for their own lives. This exhibition will request submissions from artists throughout Minnesota and it will be juried by representatives from MacRostie Art Center and OutFront Minnesota. Thematically, the subject matter of the work will surround 'coming out' and the reception for this exhibition will coincide with National Coming Out Day.

Sarah Wieben: painting

Wieben attempts to express how little control we have over our lives and the land that we live on; we have our hands on the land, attempting to harness its power, to use it, to change the face of it. Forgetting all the while that it is our host, and we may someday wear out our welcome. She lives and works in Minneapolis, MN.

Ben Moore: drawing & painting

Moore's work focuses on the materials, graphite and paper, rather than the finished image. His drawings begin as non-objective approaches, reacting to the form as it comes. The finished drawings are accumulations of marks, sometimes resembling smoke, storm clouds, and explosions.

Holiday Marketplace

Handcrafted artistry, created by our organization's members, including soap, jewelry, pottery, wearables, painting, cards, and ornaments are on display in a festive setting.

Wreath Auction

MacRostie's artists decorate wreaths, which are auctioned to benefit the MAC's programs.

Bill Gossman: Pottery

Gossman, a potter from New London, MN, specializes in wood and soda firing. He works primarily on the wheel and alters the forms following the initial throwing with painting and carving. Gossman strives for simplicity in his work and achieves this through his masterful use of form and color.

All From One Tree: A traveling exhibition by the North House Folk School

This is a project that draws attention to the source material of many northern craftspeople--the birch tree. One birch tree was harvested and more than 20 craftspeople found inspiration and harvested materials from this single tree. Items in the exhibition include wood turned bowls, canoe paddles, birch dyed silk scarves, figure carvings, and baskets.

Margaret Holmes: Photography

Holmes, a photographer from Hibbing, MN, will exhibit selections from her 'Family Mine' series. Holmes' work stems from our universal need to belong; the themes in her work are family and society. She uses lakes, mirrors, eyes, and windows as symbols to reflect the passage of time.

Liz White: Over TIme

White uses abstraction as a means to reinterpret her surroundings. Her works have an unmistakable sense of depth and power. White lives and works in Grand Rapids, MN and Belfry, MT.

2009 Empty Bowls Project

Friday, March 6, 11 am to 2 pm

$10 (includes handmade bowl, soup, bread, and beverage)

For the eighth year, the Empty Bowls Project will bring the community together in a fundraiser to increase awareness about the problem of hunger and raise funds to support hunger relief agencies in Itasca County. Proceeds from the project are given to the Community Cafe, Second Harvest North Central Food Bank, and MacRostie Art Center.

Check out the Empty Bowls Project Blog at http://emptybowlsitasca.wordpress.com

MacRostie and Minnesota Galleries

Clay: Daryn Lowman, James Loso, and Cyrus Swann

Daryn Lowman

For Lowman, form and utility are essential elements, and the functional aspects of his pieces are often implied gestures that create the illusion of utility.

James Loso

Loso is interested in surface decoration, metallic additions, and carving in his raku, stoneware, and porcelain pieces.

Cyrus Swann

Swann is working to unite image and form within his functional and decorative stoneware pieces.

MacRostie Gallery

Britta Urness: Painting, Prints, and Installation

Urness current series of paintings use hair and wigs as a foundation for the creation of portraits. She uses iconic figures from history, music, and fashion as subjects. Themes in the work include self image, femininity, glamour, and pop culture. Urness lives and works in East Lansing, MI.

Minnesota Gallery

Small Art, Big Ideas: An Exhibition of Miniatures

Our second annual exhibition of miniatures is open to all MAC-affiliated artists who wish to participate. Each submission will be no larger than 12 inches in any dimension and the maximum retail price is $100. Everyone is welcome to participate! Call or email us for more information.

Minnesota Gallery

John Cox: Visual Notes from Between the Kinks in a Passageway

Cox's current conceptual and philosophical explorations have dealt with and are dealing with his place as a new father and the many themes of heroism, androgyny, gender status quos, and conformity. Cox is influenced by scientific journaling, graffiti, graphic novels, schematics, and diagrams.

MacRostie Gallery

John Bauer and Heidi Holtan: Reveal

This intimate exhibition with photography by John Bauer and audio by Heidi Holtanwill feature individuals from Itasca County coupled with audio recordings. Each subject is a delight and will reveal something about who we are as individuals. Participants include a recovering alcoholic, a former exotic dancer, an Alzheimer patient, a World War II veteran, among others.

MacRostie Gallery

Nathan Bray: Influenced Altered

Bray will exhibit functional and decorative ceramics. His work is influenced by electricity, water, race cars, and women.

Minnesota Gallery

Bemidji State University Faculty Show

Exhibition will feature the work of Butch Holden, Jason Clark, Terry Garrett, Linda Brown, Steve Sundahl, Natalia Himmirska, Vivian Morgan, and more!

MacRostie Gallery

17th Annual Juried Art Exhibition

Artists from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota were invited to submit slides or digital images of up to two pieces of work in the two- or three-dimensional categories to be reviewed by the juror. Acker
Anderson has selected 34 works by 22 different artists representing a wide variety of media to appear in the show.

The artists include:
Donna Rae Anderson – Deer River, MN       
Tim Lamey – Fargo, ND
Joy Anderson – Bigfork, MN                        
Jane Latimer – Grand Rapids, MN
AJ Atwater – Duluth, MN                             
Cheryl LeClair-Sommer –Little Canada, MN
Tamara Bennett – Bovey, MN                       
Daryl Lowman – Virginia,MN
Bob Carls – Deerwood, MN                          
Erica Merchant –Vermillion, SD
Gwendolyn Comings – Minneapolis, MN     
JoAnn Nelson Ryan – Grand Rapids,MN
Kristin Grevich – Medina, MN                      
Sandi Pillsbury Gredzens– Two Harbors, MN
Kim Gross – Duluth, MN                              
George Robinson –Shoreview, MN
Jo Haynie – Grand Rapids, MN                    
Jenni Smith – Virginia, MN
Brian Jenson – Grand Rapids, MN                
Lisa Stauffer – Duluth, MN
Donna LaBeau – Grand Rapids, MN             
Tyler Thiessen – Becker, MN

MacRostie Gallery

Mari Richards

Mari Richards: More, Please

When discussing her sculptural and installation based word, Richard says, "Our culture is hell-bent on consuming everything around us. In every area of life - from food, to information, to our choice of identity and beyond - we create a concept of self by asking our bodies and minds to incorporate and assimilate our surroundings. This work explores this excess within our bodies, and the new hybrid identities that arise." Richards lives and works in Minneapolis.

Minnesota Gallery

Mail Art Exhibition/$49 Sale

Many local and regional artists will be participating in this 2nd annual exhibition and sale. All pieces will be the same size and the same price ($49).

October 2009

Sponsored by Jim's Auto Repair, Wing 'n Willows Art Gallery, Mary Metzger, Frieda & Scott Hall, Jordan Acker Anderson and Josh Anderson.

MacRostie Gallery

Jo Haynie

Jo Haynie: A Retrospective

Jo Hayne, a life long MAC supporter and member, will exhibit her watercolor and acrylic work in a retrospective dating back to 1967. This is Haynie's first solo exhibition in her forty-two year involvment at MacRostie Art Center. Haynie's work focuses on the landscape and on birds.

Minnesota Gallery

Redeux: Recycled Art

Redeux is an exhibition curated from the art collections of local art enthusiasts. This exhibition recycles art from the homes of collectors back into the gallery. This diverse exhibition will span time and media. All works will be for sale.

November 2009

Sponsored by the Ladyslipper Fund

MacRostie Gallery

Holiday Marketplace

The Holiday Marketplace will feature pottery, holiday decorations, cards, jewelry, and bath and body products from local and regional artists.

Minnesota Gallery

Wreath Auction

The Wreath Auction will feature wreaths decorated by local artists. The wreaths will be available for purchase via silent auction.

Auction Begins: Friday, November 27 from 10am - 5pm.

Auction Ends: Saturday, November 27 at 3pm.